[krapp]

The argument isn't "those are just stories" it's that "those stories demonstrate why those constraints won't work."

But people are going to try it anyway. Belief in Asimov's three laws is a matter of religious faith. Just know you've been warned.

[const_cast]

Trying to have constraints and then failing is arguably better than the current idea about AI safety - discarding constraints as a concept.

If Asimov's laws don't work, that doesn't mean we can ignore the idea of them and... Just do nothing.

[krapp]

>If Asimov's laws don't work, that doesn't mean we can ignore the idea of them and... Just do nothing.

I don't think anyone is suggesting to just do nothing because Asimov's laws won't work, so much as suggest that people consider why they wouldn't work, and what that means for the problem of AI alignment in the real world.

It may simply be inevitable that AI (if we're defining AI as something like an LLM) can always be talked into or out of anything, given the right prompts. In which case constraints can only work so far and we need to consider what happens when they inevitably fail.